Schoepfia chrysophylloides (A.Rich.)Planch.

Description: Shrubs or trees, 1.3–7(–9) m; bark whitish, corky, fissured; branches striate, olive green to whitish, slender. Leaf blades lanceolate, ovate, or elliptic, 4–8 × 2–4 cm, brittle, base cuneate-attenuate to obtuse, apex acuminate, both surfaces shiny, ± tuberculate; venation brochidodromous, midrib sunken on both surfaces, lateral veins 4–6 pairs. Inflorescences 1–2 per axil, each a 2–3-flowered cyme or solitary flower; peduncle 1–4 mm. Flowers of two forms, pin and thrum; calyx rim entire or slightly lobed, 1 mm; corolla tube yellow or orange and lobes pink to red, urceolate to cylindric, 4.5 mm (pin flowers), cylindric to campanulate, (3.5–)4(–5) mm (thrum flowers); stigma 2–3-lobed, at or distal to included anthers (pin flowers) or proximal to exserted anthers (thrum flowers); ovary 2-locular in 4-merous flowers, 3-locular in 5-merous flowers. Drupes pink, orange, or red, subovoid to ellipsoid, (7–)10–13 × (6–)7–8 mm, with persistent rim of corolla at apex.²

Culture: Parasitic, forms root haustoria. Appears to grow in cultivation without a host, but perhaps would do better with a host of some sort? Seasonally drier October through May, mark with water when dry labels for that time period.

Provenance:

Duke# 02-085

Seed collected by Jay Horn, Key Largo, Florida

Accession Date: 11-18-2002
Bench: 1302 - NEOA: North Bench E
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 02-17-2023
Restrictions:
- BGCI Limited Ex Situ Distribution - Plants do not leave building without Manager approval!
- Federally Listed Noxious Weed - Plants are not to leave Greenhouse!

This accession has been observed in bloom on:

The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Sunday, 30 December, 2018.
Schoepfia schreberi at Flora of North America. Last accessed on Sunday, 30 December, 2018.

data regenerated on Fri, 17 Feb 2023 12:09:01 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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